Poland has imposed a “temporary ban” on agricultural and food products from Ukraine, citing the need to protect local markets from the “destabilization” caused by an ongoing inflow of cheap goods.
Poland’s agriculture and development ministers have been tasked with issuing “relevant legal acts to protect the Polish agricultural market against destabilization – including a temporary ban on imports of agricultural and food products from Ukraine,” the government said in a statement on Saturday.
Commenting on the decision, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, insisted it will not harm ties between Warsaw and Kiev, with the latter already taking unspecified steps to address Poland’s concerns.
“We are and remain unchanged friends and allies of Ukraine… But it is the duty of every state, every authority, good authority in any case, to protect the interests of its citizens,” Kaczynski argued.
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